Failure modes of the modern (that is, produced in the last 25 years)
hard drives and SSDs made the utility outdated. Since the kernel
interface to support it was removed in r324853, cut the userspace
remnants as well.
Discussed with: bde (who does not like the removal)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
After the addition of SUBDIR.yes, uniquifying/ordering the SUBDIRs doesn't
make a whole lot of sense, and it's in effect a half measure.
Ordering SUBDIR (after adding SUBDIR.yes to it) in bsd.subdir.mk is a
separate change that warrants more discussion/testing, because while
the SUBDIR_PARALLEL work largely fixed dependency ordering for SUBDIRs,
there might be downstream FreeBSD consumers that rely on the SUBDIR
ordering.
MFC after: 2 months
Reviewed by: bdrewery
Differential Revision: D11398
patm(4) devices.
Maintaining an address family and framework has real costs when we make
infrastructure improvements. In the case of NATM we support no devices
manufactured in the last 20 years and some will not even work in modern
motherboards (some newer devices that patm(4) could be updated to
support apparently exist, but we do not currently have support).
With this change, support remains for some netgraph modules that don't
require NATM support code. It is unclear if all these should remain,
though ng_atmllc certainly stands alone.
Note well: FreeBSD 11 supports NATM and will continue to do so until at
least September 30, 2021. Improvements to the code in FreeBSD 11 are
certainly welcome.
Reviewed by: philip
Approved by: harti
Changes include modifications in kernel crash dump routines, dumpon(8) and
savecore(8). A new tool called decryptcore(8) was added.
A new DIOCSKERNELDUMP I/O control was added to send a kernel crash dump
configuration in the diocskerneldump_arg structure to the kernel.
The old DIOCSKERNELDUMP I/O control was renamed to DIOCSKERNELDUMP_FREEBSD11 for
backward ABI compatibility.
dumpon(8) generates an one-time random symmetric key and encrypts it using
an RSA public key in capability mode. Currently only AES-256-CBC is supported
but EKCD was designed to implement support for other algorithms in the future.
The public key is chosen using the -k flag. The dumpon rc(8) script can do this
automatically during startup using the dumppubkey rc.conf(5) variable. Once the
keys are calculated dumpon sends them to the kernel via DIOCSKERNELDUMP I/O
control.
When the kernel receives the DIOCSKERNELDUMP I/O control it generates a random
IV and sets up the key schedule for the specified algorithm. Each time the
kernel tries to write a crash dump to the dump device, the IV is replaced by
a SHA-256 hash of the previous value. This is intended to make a possible
differential cryptanalysis harder since it is possible to write multiple crash
dumps without reboot by repeating the following commands:
# sysctl debug.kdb.enter=1
db> call doadump(0)
db> continue
# savecore
A kernel dump key consists of an algorithm identifier, an IV and an encrypted
symmetric key. The kernel dump key size is included in a kernel dump header.
The size is an unsigned 32-bit integer and it is aligned to a block size.
The header structure has 512 bytes to match the block size so it was required to
make a panic string 4 bytes shorter to add a new field to the header structure.
If the kernel dump key size in the header is nonzero it is assumed that the
kernel dump key is placed after the first header on the dump device and the core
dump is encrypted.
Separate functions were implemented to write the kernel dump header and the
kernel dump key as they need to be unencrypted. The dump_write function encrypts
data if the kernel was compiled with the EKCD option. Encrypted kernel textdumps
are not supported due to the way they are constructed which makes it impossible
to use the CBC mode for encryption. It should be also noted that textdumps don't
contain sensitive data by design as a user decides what information should be
dumped.
savecore(8) writes the kernel dump key to a key.# file if its size in the header
is nonzero. # is the number of the current core dump.
decryptcore(8) decrypts the core dump using a private RSA key and the kernel
dump key. This is performed by a child process in capability mode.
If the decryption was not successful the parent process removes a partially
decrypted core dump.
Description on how to encrypt crash dumps was added to the decryptcore(8),
dumpon(8), rc.conf(5) and savecore(8) manual pages.
EKCD was tested on amd64 using bhyve and i386, mipsel and sparc64 using QEMU.
The feature still has to be tested on arm and arm64 as it wasn't possible to run
FreeBSD due to the problems with QEMU emulation and lack of hardware.
Designed by: def, pjd
Reviewed by: cem, oshogbo, pjd
Partial review: delphij, emaste, jhb, kib
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4712
(gpt)zfsboot will read one-time boot directives from a special ZFS pool
area. The area was previously described as "Boot Block Header", but
currently it is know as Pad2, marked as reserved and is zeroed out on
pool creation. The new code interprets data in this area, if any, using
the same format as boot.config. The area is immediately wiped out.
Failure to parse the directives results in a reboot right after the
cleanup. Otherwise the boot sequence proceeds as usual.
zfsbootcfg writes zfsboot arguments specified on its command line to the
Pad2 area of a disk identified by vfs.zfs.boot.primary_pool and
vfs.zfs.boot.primary_vdev kenv variables that are set by loader during
boot. Please see the manual page for more.
Thanks to all who reviewed, contributed and made suggestions! There are
many potential improvements to the feature, please see the review for
details.
Reviewed by: wblock (docs)
Discussed with: jhb, tsoome
MFC after: 3 weeks
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7612
After calling the cap_init(3) function Casper will fork from it's original
process, using pdfork(2). Forking from a process has a lot of advantages:
1. We have the same cwd as the original process.
2. The same uid, gid and groups.
3. The same MAC labels.
4. The same descriptor table.
5. The same routing table.
6. The same umask.
7. The same cpuset(1).
From now services are also in form of libraries.
We also removed libcapsicum at all and converts existing program using Casper
to new architecture.
Discussed with: pjd, jonathan, ed, drysdale@google.com, emaste
Partially reviewed by: drysdale@google.com, bdrewery
Approved by: pjd (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4277
all the SUBDIR entries in parallel, instead of serially. Apply this
option to a selected number of Makefiles, which can greatly speed up the
build on multi-core machines, when using make -j.
This can be extended to more Makefiles later on, whenever they are
verified to work correctly with parallel building.
I tested this on a 24-core machine, with make -j48 buildworld (N = 6):
before stddev after stddev
======= ====== ======= ======
real time 1741.1 16.5 959.8 2.7
user time 12468.7 16.4 14393.0 16.8
sys time 1825.0 54.8 2110.6 22.8
(user+sys)/real 8.2 17.1
E.g. the build was approximately 45% faster in real time. On machines
with less cores, or with lower -j settings, the speedup will not be as
impressive. But at least you can now almost max out a machine with
buildworld!
Submitted by: jilles
MFC after: 2 weeks
giving access to functionality that is not available in capability mode
sandbox. The functionality can be precisely restricted.
Start with the following services:
- system.dns - provides API compatible to:
- gethostbyname(3),
- gethostbyname2(3),
- gethostbyaddr(3),
- getaddrinfo(3),
- getnameinfo(3),
- system.grp - provides getgrent(3)-compatible API,
- system.pwd - provides getpwent(3)-compatible API,
- system.random - allows to obtain entropy from /dev/random,
- system.sysctl - provides sysctlbyname(3-compatible API.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
most kernels before FreeBSD 9.0. Remove such modules and respective kernel
options: atadisk, ataraid, atapicd, atapifd, atapist, atapicam. Remove the
atacontrol utility and some man pages. Remove useless now options ATA_CAM.
No objections: current@, stable@
MFC after: never
GIANT from VFS. This code is particulary broken and fragile and other
in-kernel implementations around, found in other operating systems,
don't really seem clean and solid enough to be imported at all.
If someone wants to reconsider in-kernel NTFS implementation for
inclusion again, a fair effort for completely fixing and cleaning it
up is expected.
In the while NTFS regular users can use FUSE interface and ntfs-3g
port to work with their NTFS partitions.
This is not targeted for MFC.
This has been developed during 2 summer of code mandates and being revived
by gnn recently.
The functionality in this commit mirrors entirely content of fusefs-kmod
port, which doesn't need to be installed anymore for -CURRENT setups.
In order to get some sparse technical notes, please refer to:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2012-March/013876.html
or to the project branch:
svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/projects/fuse/
which also contains granular history of changes happened during port
refinements. This commit does not came from the branch reintegration
itself because it seems svn is not behaving properly for this functionaly
at the moment.
Partly Sponsored by: Google, Summer of Code program 2005, 2011
Originally submitted by: ilya, Csaba Henk <csaba-ml AT creo DOT hu >
In collabouration with: pho
Tested by: flo, gnn, Gustau Perez,
Kevin Oberman <rkoberman AT gmail DOT com>
MFC after: 2 months
The NAND Flash environment consists of several distinct components:
- NAND framework (drivers harness for NAND controllers and NAND chips)
- NAND simulator (NANDsim)
- NAND file system (NAND FS)
- Companion tools and utilities
- Documentation (manual pages)
This work is still experimental. Please use with caution.
Obtained from: Semihalf
Supported by: FreeBSD Foundation, Juniper Networks
HAST allows to transparently store data on two physically separated machines
connected over the TCP/IP network. HAST works in Primary-Secondary
(Master-Backup, Master-Slave) configuration, which means that only one of the
cluster nodes can be active at any given time. Only Primary node is able to
handle I/O requests to HAST-managed devices. Currently HAST is limited to two
cluster nodes in total.
HAST operates on block level - it provides disk-like devices in /dev/hast/
directory for use by file systems and/or applications. Working on block level
makes it transparent for file systems and applications. There in no difference
between using HAST-provided device and raw disk, partition, etc. All of them
are just regular GEOM providers in FreeBSD.
For more information please consult hastd(8), hastctl(8) and hast.conf(5)
manual pages, as well as http://wiki.FreeBSD.org/HAST.
Sponsored by: FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored by: OMCnet Internet Service GmbH
Sponsored by: TransIP BV
Not only did these two drivers depend on IFF_NEEDSGIANT, they were
broken 7 months ago during the MPSAFE TTY import. if_ppp(4) has been
replaced by ppp(8). There is no replacement for if_sl(4).
If we see regressions in for example the ports tree, we should just use
__FreeBSD_version 800045 to check whether if_ppp(4) and if_sl(4) are
present. Version 800045 is used to denote the import of MPSAFE TTY.
Discussed with: rwatson, but also rwatson's IFF_NEEDSGIANT emails on the
lists.
control over the result of buildworld and installworld; this especially
helps packaging systems such as nanobsd
Reviewed by: various (posted to arch)
MFC after: 1 month
obsoleted by gpart(8). This avoids the following bugs in fdisk:
- initializing a disk without MBR bogusly emits the error:
fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found
- initializing a disk with or without MBR bogusly emits either:
fdisk: Class not found
or
fdisk: Geom not found: "XXX"
- the default geometry for non-ATA and non-SCSI disks is either
invalid or sub-optimizal.
managed from userspace. It is largely a wrapper for sysctl()
calls, but because the sysctls for adding and removing scripts
are awkward to use directly, this provides an easier-to-use
interface.
MFC after: 3 months
included man pages on how to use it. This code is still somewhat experimental
but has been successfully tested on a number of targets. Many thanks to
Danny for contributing this.
Approved by: re
It is no longer needed, because "mount -t reiserfs" calls nmount(2)
directly to mount a ReiserFS file system without the use of
this external mount program.
Approved by: dumbbell
